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by frankenst1 5y ago
Yes, it seems like smooth scrolling is prioritized over low latency. On Windows I even get 3 frames (48ms) of lag (presumably because of DWM).
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by frankenst1 5y ago
Rendering is fast on Chrome, however latency is high: Chrome has 1 to 2 frames (17ms to 33ms on a 60Hz display) of additional, unnecessary input lag when compared to Firefox: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/is
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by frankenst1 5y ago
Are "focal distance" and "accomodation" separate issues? Isn't accomodation focusing on an object at a certain distance?
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by frankenst1 5y ago
The tasks asked to name 10 nouns which are as "different" from each other as possible. I chose 10 common words which all belonged to different concepts, I scored 75%. The results then stated that "different" refers to th
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by frankenst1 5y ago
> dollars [...] will always have value The US dollar has lost - ~30% of its value in the last 10 years - ~84% of its value in the last 50 years - ~97% of its value since 1900 (Value here refers to purchasing power) Reason for this is tha
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by frankenst1 5y ago
I would assume that the ability to receive remittances at practically zero fees without any intermediaries and a monetary supply that can't be censored or controlled by the government is more valuable to the people of El Salvador than
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by frankenst1 5y ago
Glasses that show objects in 3D overlaid onto the real world sounds like XR to me. But if you consider this to be AR, how is it different to XR and how can it be solved for AR but not for XR?
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by frankenst1 5y ago
What is the vergence-accomodation conflict in AR? Isn't AR just a 2D plane with a camera image superimposed with virtual objects? (e.g. a tablet with an AR app?) Or do you mean it is solved because it doesn't occur in the first pl
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by frankenst1 5y ago
The price of a Big Mac is an aggregate of the costs of its ingredients, labor, production, storage, distribution, marketing, etc... A Big Mac can also be considered to deliver roughly the same perceived value to the customer over decades wh
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by frankenst1 5y ago
Cost of a Big Mac in 2000: $2.51 (in 2000 dollars) $2.51 (2000) in 2021: $3.92 (in 2021 dollars, CPI adjusted) Cost of a Big Mac in 2021: $5.66 (in 2021 dollars) So a Big Mac in 2021 is 44% more expensive than what CP
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by frankenst1 5y ago
“During a caesarean, many people become shaky, nauseous, uncomfortable, even faint,” Grant explained. “These are normal physiological reactions. In order to facilitate skin to skin in the OR, an extra nurse needs to be available to a
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by frankenst1 5y ago
I assume you still can't use UDP or bind to TCP sockets that are accessible outside of the browser?
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by frankenst1 5y ago
This is not a "new security hole" that has been discovered. This is just the execution of the known 51% attack on a dead coin with 0.00002% of Bitcoin's hashrate... Title is also missing (2019).
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by frankenst1 5y ago
Obligatory XKCD on the gender differences in color labelling: https://i0.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/blag/doghouse_analysis.png (from: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results&
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by frankenst1 5y ago
let obj = {a:1}, arr = [1], map = new Map().set("a",1); // Iterating over an object keys for (let x of Object.keys(obj)) {...} // an array for (let x of arr) {...}
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by frankenst1 5y ago
And "Dropbox is just SVN mounted on top of curlftpfs" - doesn't mean there isn't a market to make technological capabilities more easily accessible for the masses. That being said, I am skeptical about the quality and wo
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by frankenst1 5y ago
>> you can send $10,000 worth of BTC anywhere in the world > You cannot send $10,000 anywhere in the world via Bitcoin You are citing currency exchange costs that would also be applicable to EUR/JPY/GBP&#x
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by frankenst1 5y ago
The ongoing discussion if mining cryptocurrency is a better "waste of energy" in comparison to watching Netflix or mining gold is repetitive and cumbersome. Just make sure energy costs include negative externalities (e.g. CO2) and
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by frankenst1 5y ago
> It makes predictions about our world, and so may be confirmed or falsified. Bold, let's see: > We should be able to reproduce/witness the 4-dimensional wave-like aspects of reality in real-time by feeding t
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by frankenst1 5y ago
The display shown in the video is the 15.6" display which costs $3,000 ( https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/15-6 ).
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> Yes, the metric goes up: Oops, meant to say transactions go up vs energy, so the metric energy/transaction goes actually down.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions are still Bitcoin transactions, with the advantage that on the Lightning Network you have a built-in protection against doublespends in contrast to accepting 0-conf tx. You are correct that funds in a Lightn
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by frankenst1 6y ago
BCH is a scam. Not because they advertise that the removal of the block size limit comes without any costs, but because it regularly splits after influential but narcissistic 'leaders' attempt to grab more power and because its co
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by frankenst1 6y ago
The Lightning Network literally exchanges Bitcoin transactions that are withheld from being broadcasted on-chain until channel closure. Bitcoins exchanged via the Lightning Network are just Bitcoins. Saying they are a different kind of &quo
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> Shutting just them down would cripple thing considerably. Not really, Bitcoin accounts for a reduction in hashrate by adjusting the mining difficulty every 2015 blocks (~2 weeks). > Then they could go after the methods of organizing
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> Is the energy cost per transaction in real world for bitcoin going up or down? Everything else is trying to muddy it up from my personal perspective. Energy is expended to secure the network as a whole and not for the transfer of coins
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> Idk, that's why I need to read into this further. So you are spreading conspiracy theories without substance and hide behind "I don't know, I am just asking questions"? Here is the list of all contributors (even tho
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by frankenst1 6y ago
There is no reduction, you can't even distinguish a large-scale single miner from a mining pool with thousands of at home miners.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Could you explain how Blockstream could influence the Bitcoin development process to act against the "market's call", e.g. which developers do you have in mind which currently work for Blockstream and have the power to overru
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by frankenst1 6y ago
The increase in hashrate can be interpreted as an increase in security, i.e. it is much more difficult/expensive for an attacker (even nation-level) to harm Bitcoin. This is mandatory for a financial network that aims to operate on glo

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